NBA Live 14 Gameplay Trailer

[LingeringRegime]

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The man who singlehandedly brought NBA Elite 11 to rubble shares his thoughts on the two trailers. (NSFW)

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[cornille]

is it just me or does this look like live 09 .... hmmmm...

[Sundown]

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Had another look. There's a few things to really like, and a ton that is really bad.

Like everyone says, the dribbling animations look nice. Some of it very nice. Unfortunately most of it is in place, but the Kyrie E3 demo looked decent so it should look good although we have no idea how it actually feels or what happens when you use less-than-perfectly timed controls.

It will be the one thing 2K fans will be jealous of if 2K has done absolutely no work in that department (they've shown little defense or dribbling in their trailers, strangely, though I'm not that worried). That's saying something.

On the other end, on-ball defensive animations look horrible. Curry was going spastic. There is no general foot-planting technology in this game or it's broken. It looks worse than cur-gen 2K on that end.

However, that pivot by Felton as he tried to catch up to Kyrie looked quite good. Too bad they cut away from that "5v5" footage after 1.5 seconds probably before something else bad or jerky showed up.

A few jumpshots look great. Melo's mainly. Most look pretty terrible.

Anyway, looks like there could actually be a game in here. Not necessarily a good one, but something to build from.

Also when dunks are the least impressive and most awkward looking things in your trailer, you've done something wrong.

[Haval93]

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I was impressed with the trailer. I thought the dribbling was pretty amazing to say the least. I looked just like D-Will when he was dribbling. I love the signature elements, Timmy had his bank shot, Kobe had the signature fade-away, Melo with the quick shutter-step and shot, Danny Green with a nice shot as well. Some Elements that I saw that stood out to me from the trailer: Fast-Breaks, in Live 10 there was no fast breaking in the game and it was simply a half-court game, I saw a couple of fast-breaks in the trailer which is a great thing, second was the move by Kobe, in Live 10, there was only one turnaround shot for everybody in the game which was horrible, it seems like that has been addressed. I didn't like some of the jerky movements and that some of the dunks still seem like rocket dunks. Visual it's sharp but the color scheme is whats killing the overall look of the game, the art team should go for a more realistic color scheme.

In the end, I saw more positives then negatives in the trailer. It's great to have two basketball games again this year.

[Koolie G]

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I just don't understand how a rational person could look at those 2 videos and think the NBA Live trailer is even close to the other. I don't even play these basketball games very much. I wasn't planning on buying an NBA next gen game. I probably will now after seeing the 2K trailer. Just look at it. Looks real. Live is not even in the same ballpark. Here are some things I noticed.

The D. Rose move to basket looks awkward. Why does his head kinda look towards his defender the whole way? It's like he's got a "crick" in his neck. Plus his facial expression is not natural. The Damon Lillard closeup. His face is weird, plus his jersey is standing up off the back of his shoulders like its on a hangar. What the heck? I've seen all these people talk about Melo's stutter step. Watch that part again. It's like he stops unnaturally and then shoots straight up. No momentum. Steve Nash, everyone knows about him, no need to beat his dead horse face into the ground.

I haven't followed this very closely but I do know the LIVE team has had multiple YEARS to produce a game that was ready for NEXT GEN. The graphics are not even close. The gameplay doesn't look close, but maybe they will show something later that proves that wrong. I'm all for NBA Live to be good. I wish it was and I had to make a difficult choice. Right now there is not even a choice. It's not close. 2k14 is next gen, Live is not.

[wordtobigbird]

Re: NBA Live 14 Gameplay Trailer

The man who singlehandedly brought NBA Elite 11 to rubble shares his thoughts on the two trailers. (NSFW)

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On point..

"something has to be wrong with your eyes if you look at these two trailers and pick Live.." but I got blasted by a Mod for saying that haha..

[xnate128x]

Lol holy balls that was absolutely gut wrenchingly absolutely disgusting!!!!! Who the hell are they trying to fool with this joke of a game? I can so see them canceling the game the day before it's released. I'm never purchasing another NBA live game again. All of the developers need to be fired and find something else to do with their lives, because developing bbasketball games is not something they're good at in the slightest. I don't care that 2K hasn't shown us much. It looks so much cleaner and more robust of a game. We all know NBA 2K14 will be awesome. Goodbye forever from me NBA Live. It's been nice knowing you.....

[RipCityAndy]

Lol holy balls that was absolutely gut wrenchingly absolutely disgusting!!!!! Who the hell are they trying to fool with this joke of a game? I can so see them canceling the game the day before it's released. I'm never purchasing another NBA live game again. All of the developers need to be fired and find something else to do with their lives, because developing bbasketball games is not something they're good at in the slightest. I don't care that 2K hasn't shown us much. It looks so much cleaner and more robust of a game. We all know NBA 2K14 will be awesome. Goodbye forever from me NBA Live. It's been nice knowing you.....

Just curious... how can you tell that 2k is a more robust game from the two trailers?

[wordtobigbird]

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Just curious... how can you tell that 2k is a more robust game from the two trailers?

Robust
strong and healthy; vigorous.
"the Caplans are a robust, healthy lot"
synonyms: strong, vigorous, sturdy, tough, powerful, solid, muscular, sinewy, rugged, hardy, strapping, brawny, burly, husky, heavily built; More
antonyms: frail, weak
(of an object) sturdy in construction.
"a robust metal cabinet"
synonyms: durable, resilient, tough, hardwearing, long-lasting, sturdy, strong

[RipCityAndy]

Robust
strong and healthy; vigorous.
"the Caplans are a robust, healthy lot"
synonyms: strong, vigorous, sturdy, tough, powerful, solid, muscular, sinewy, rugged, hardy, strapping, brawny, burly, husky, heavily built; More
antonyms: frail, weak
(of an object) sturdy in construction.
"a robust metal cabinet"
synonyms: durable, resilient, tough, hardwearing, long-lasting, sturdy, strong

Yes, I know what robust means

My question was how can you tell this from the two trailers? I just wanted some deeper explanation... it seemed like an odd word to use when describing the trailer... that's all.

[tril]

looks decent!!! only real complaint is, why does the rim look so big!!!!

[xnate128x]

Just curious... how can you tell that 2k is a more robust game from the two trailers?

Well first of all you need some high prescription glasses, if you can't see that 2K14 is years ahead of Live. 2ks player movement is better. The players shot execution is better. Their graphics are insanely better. Even from the short clips, the A. I. looks better. Did you see Live's trailer at all btw? Their player models look like plastic dolls. They player movement is taken straight from that joke of a game NBA Elite 13. I didn't see any player emotion in Live. The A. I. In Live is once again a joke. In the clip with Nash where he's screened and dribbles down the lane, there is no reaction from the defender to intercept the lane and interrupt nashes shot towards the hoop. All NBA Live 14 is, is a slight beefed up port of NBA Elite. Most of the code derives itself from Elite. I wish they could start from scratch, but unfortunately that would take them years and years to do. I will never ever purchase an NBA game from EA sports again. They're a joke of a company. The best I will ever do is rent their sports games, and that is it.

[GisherJohn24]

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Looks great. Day1 purchase.

[GisherJohn24]

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Looks all right and I hope it's just fun. Seems to look and play like classic Live. I don't know why there is so much hate for Live, it might stem back to the Madden monopoly. EA makes great soccer, NHL and Golf games and they owned baseball when they made MVP.**I loved Live 08, 09 and especially Live 10. Was never a 2K killer, but a solid game, and that's all we could ever ask. Competition is good people. Regardless of your thoughts on EA, remember having more games out there makes the other guy work harder to make their game better...

[wordtobigbird]

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Looks all right and I hope it's just fun. Seems to look and play like classic Live. I don't know why there is so much hate for Live, it might stem back to the Madden monopoly. EA makes great soccer, NHL and Golf games and they owned baseball when they made MVP.**I loved Live 08, 09 and especially Live 10. Was never a 2K killer, but a solid game, and that's all we could ever ask. Competition is good people. Regardless of your thoughts on EA, remember having more games out there makes the other guy work harder to make their game better...

So 2k14 only looks so good because Live was coming out this year?